Ah yes summer in Melbourne...

Richard Warby still remembers the day his local community piled into a mini-bus bound for Long Bay Jail to pay a fine and release his father, who was locked up for the bizarre crime of baking bread on a weekend.

Hey structural biologists submitting PDB’s from Oceania in 2026…. Keep those structures coming via the Japanese PDB node! 🤩

Neoliberalism's toll: "a weakened public school system, financially stressed universities, and a #CSIRO repeatedly stripped of long-term capability." We have lost "depth, continuity, and trust, conditions that science requires but markets cannot provide." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Australia's environmental law reform Bills must be strengthened to protect our biodiversity. Academy President Prof Jagadish AC calls on Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator the Hon Murray Watt to embed scientific advice into decision-making and limit exemptions that risk our environment.

Not just an investment, but an investment with a documented, demonstrated, substantial return both economically and socially.

Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526

Applications are open for the Frances Separovic Scholarship for domestic students enrolling at @unimelb.bsky.social in an undergraduate degree and are experiencing disadvantaged circumstances. Preference to those from regional or remote areas of Australia. scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awards/franc...

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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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🎨 Design the Next Lorne Proteins T-Shirt! Got an eye for design? We’re calling on creative scientists to design the official 2026 conference T-shirt! 📅 Entries close 10 November 2025 👉 Submit your design here: #LorneProteins #TshirtCompetition #CreativeScience

Just a heads up to anyone interested. @joshuamhardy.bsky.social will be presenting Protein DJ next week at the Australian Structural Biology Computing “Protein Design Seminars” hosted by @ausbiocommons.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Y'know what? It's giveaway time! Been a while. Like and repost this post, be entered to win one of two You Are-themed decks. the dungeon and the tavern! Giveaway of one deck happens at 50 reposts. Both decks at 100 reposts! Let's go (and back the Kickstarter!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/san...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 recognises up to 5️⃣ scientists who are within 5 years of their PhD, with a talk secured in a dedicated session! It’s always a highlight of the meeting & a fantastic opportunity to showcase exciting new science 🤩 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝟐𝟒 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: www.lorneproteins.org/submissions

We're #Hiring - join our team! We're looking for a Journals Acquisitions Specialist to play a key role in the growth of our scholarly publishing program. More details and how to apply: jobs.csiro.au/job/Melbourn...#Hiring #PublishingJobs #ScholarlyPublishing

👇 We want you! Don’t miss out on our inaugural "Indigenous Researcher Award" from the Lorne Proteins conference. Full support to attend the 2026 conference. Deadline October 24. www.lorneproteins.org/researcher

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US GOP following a playbook or what?

Momentum is building! Join us for the 51st Lorne Proteins Conference Feb 8–12, 2026, Mantra Lorne on the Great Ocean Road, for fun networking activities 🏐 🎾 🥗 🪩 and breathtaking surf-coast accessibility 🏖️ 🏊 🏄 in the generous breaks between sessions! 🔗 Register here: www.lorneproteins.org/register

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2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

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🧪 My favourites are the singing dogs (very close relatives of dingoes) in Papua New Guinea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Gui...

🥁🥁🥁 The 51st Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function is officially live! After the resounding success of the 50th Lorne Conference in 2025 celebrating five decades of pioneering science and community, the legacy continues... 🏄🏖️🌞 February 8–12, 2026 Register here: www.lorneproteins.org

Very happy to see this work published and thanks to Eric Reynolds, Paul Veith and Eric Hanssen for giving me the chance to contribute. 🧪

This is absolutely mind blowing! 😳 Watch Hajime Miura win his 8th 3A World YoYo Championship at the World YoYo Contest 2025

I found the perspective article on making coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask on a stirring hot-plate next to the fume hood (not in it!) particularly insightful.

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

We are recruiting! Two 24 month postdoc positions are available with @m-l-baker.bsky.social and I, one mainly synthesis and the other measurements of lanthanide SMMs. Links below, deadline 19th Aug - please re-post: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

💥 We have 3 positions open in my lab in Basel, Switzerland🇨🇭: #nanopores #smFRET #biomolecular #dynamics #singleMolecules We’re looking for talented & ambitious new colleagues enthusiastic about biomolecular dynamics & single-molecule tech. Please share broadly, thank you!🤝 schmid.chemie.unibas.ch

Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩‍🔬🔧💎🤖 australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...

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🚨 Attention Centre Members Got exciting research to share? Submit your abstract for a poster or short talk at the 2025 CoESB Annual Conference, 2-5 Dec on the Gold Coast! 🌴 #CoESB25 🏆 Cash prizes up for grabs 🔗 Submit: forms.office.com/r/vPVxniRF8f 📅 Deadline: Sun, 10 Aug at 11:59PM (AEST)

Very pleased to share our latest paper, primarily the work of an exceptional post-doc, Caitlin. Honeybees, like many insects, make silk, but it's different in structure to that of both spiders and silkworms - here we resolve some of the details. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hey @csiropublishing.bsky.social don't forget the 🧪 to make sure your posts hit the Science feed!

Opportunity in mass spectrometry for mechanistic biology and profiling at AstraZeneca (Cambridge UK) closing: 04-Aug-2025 #MS #biochem #AnalChem #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/...

This looks familiar for some reason.

Apologising in advance for our ludicrously small national investment in research, but hey, it's not a bad place to live... 🧪

Get involved with @ausjchem.bsky.social – join the Editorial Board! We're looking Associate Editors to handle peer review, make editorial decisions and help shape the journal's direction under the leadership of our Editors-in-Chief. Details: www.publish.csiro.au/ch/Expressio... #AusJChem

Opportunity in computer-aided #DrugDesign at Roche (Basel Switzerland) ref: 202506-115733 #CADD #CompChem #cheminformatics #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 careers.roche.com/global/en/jo...

I'm starting to find this trend of "predicted ligand = hit / lead discovered" really annoying. No, they haven't found leads - they haven't even shown that the compounds actually bind the target or inhibit its activity. Nothing wrong with what they HAVE done, but find leads? No.

🌟 We are hiring! Seeking a postdoc to use molecular dynamics and AI to understand how ion channels are regulated by membrane lipids 🌟 Join us at #scienceanu with amazing collaborators and great working conditions! Email me (karri.anu.edu.au) or apply here (tiny.cc/corry). Please share & repost!

Spread the word - science down under! 🧪

Very sad news, but I guess not a huge surprise in today's world of pod-casts, socials and 5 second attention spans.

Please share. 2 tenure-track T&R math/stat jobs at the University of Queensland, Australia. Amazing weather, gorgeous campus & lifestyle. 17% employer retirement contribution, lots of leave. Strong global reputation. Supports diversity @stevenstrogatz.com uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...